(FWD)linux, cable modem, and RCN

[dredd at megacity.org (Derek J. Balling)]

At 6:13 PM -0800 2/21/01, John Chambers wrote:

>Feb 21 11:59:17 kendy kernel: Packet log: out REJECT eth0 PROTO=17
>0.0.0.0:68 255.255.255.255:67 L=328 S=0x00 I=25251 F=0x0000 T=64 (#6)
>Feb 21 11:59:17 kendy kernel: Packet log: out REJECT eth0 PROTO=17
>0.0.0.0:68 255.255.255.255:67 L=328 S=0x00 I=25252 F=0x0000 T=64 (#6)

This looks to me like your ipchains config is filtering out the outbound
bootps requests (which is the port DHCP negotiation is done on).

You might try turning of filtering temporarily and see if you suddenly are
able to get it to work. :)

D
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